Browns Requiem

            I called Irwin, my driver, and told him to meet me at my place in an hour and to bring coffee - there was work on the line. He was grumpy until i mentioned money. I hung up and looked out my window. It was getting light. Hollywood, below me, was filling up with hazy sunshine. I felt a slight tremor ; part caffeine, part Beethoven, part a last passage of night air. I felt my life was going to change.

Brown's Requiem
James Ellroy
1981

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Wilshire and La Brea
Los Angeles 1937
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Jake

           I was trying to keep someone from being hurt. I ended up making sure she was hurt.

J.J Gittes -
Chinatown
1974

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Marco Diaz

Ego and the Emotions

        "Not by well-oiled, soulless machines, but by men, the best and most efficient of whom suffered from unpredictable aberrations of the ego and the emotions.”

— W. R. Burnett (1899-1982), The Asphalt Jungle, 1949.

Even Bad Luck is Some Kind of Luck #163

Body of Heat

Odds Against Tomorrow

Reservoir Dogs

Killers Kiss

They Shoot Horses Don't They ?

Murder My Sweet

Nihgtmare Alley

The Killing

Night of the Hunter

Twin Peaks

Touch of Evil

Angel Heart

Hoffa

Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)

Hot Spot

Treasure Sierra Madre

Bad Day at Black Rock

Woman on the Run

Odette (1950)

Know in Your Belly

         More you learn about him - from his pimping and coke-running as a thirteen-year-old bellboy to his first alcoholic breakdown and DTs at the tender age of 18 - the more you're there on the ground with him, clenching your body against the next kidney punch. Such pain shouldn't happen. Thompson makes sure you know in your belly that it does, everywhere and all the time.

excerpt from

Naked Authors.com

(on Jim Thompson)

2006

Yeah It's Great

 

They Shoot Horses Don't They ?
Sidney Lumet
1969

Night of the Hunter

   But the devil wins sometimes. Can't nobody say i didn't do my best to save her.

Harry Powell -
Night of the Hunter
1955

Big Lonely City #248

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